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The peace process not such a good model after all
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
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The Written World
Here’s something to keep you occupied over the weekend. [Will there be a quiz? - Ed] Possibly… The BBC magazine has an short and interesting, but un-embeddable, audio slide-show of Melvyn Bragg’s Radio 4 five-parter, In Our Time: The Written World. The British Library has more online information about the texts and technology featured in each [...] read our review » -
Hearing the Other Voice from the Grave: Why Should we Listen to David Ervine’s Stories?
Ed Moloney’s Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland has received considerable attention in the press and in the public realm since its publication earlier this year. Although the book relates the experiences of the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes and the PUP/UVF’s David Ervine, much of the discussion has focused on Hughes’ stories [...] read our review »
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Comment on Paddy bashing in the Sunday Times?
on 30 March 2009 at 1:33 pm
Yesterday I started reading that ST article but stopped where Ireland was described as a “beer-soaked backwater”…
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Comment on Newspaper troubles (again)
on 20 March 2009 at 4:32 pm
Here’s an interesting perspective Brian:
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
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Comment on “He’s not averse to symbolising the process of poetry”
on 20 March 2009 at 3:01 am
Thanks for the links Pete.
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Comment on Even the Un-Irish are Irish too…
on 26 December 2008 at 9:02 am
Paddy….yer obviously Oirsh….Had ye listened tae yer Geography teacher at Skool, ye wud know that Oirland is part o’ the Brattish Oiles, wudn’t ye?
Could you speak English please?
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Comment on The Blog Round…
on 21 October 2008 at 3:59 pm
The Blog Breakdown? Bit cheesy?!!
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Comment on Brian Lenihan: bruiser or bantamweight?
on 16 October 2008 at 4:28 am
Brian,
Nearly flunked GCSE Maths myself (in Birmingham) and then Leaving Cert Maths (by which time I was in Navan) so I can prove my weakness in Maths in two jurisdictions! But as you suggest, I don’t hold myself out as the steward of the economy either..
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Comment on Brian Lenihan: bruiser or bantamweight?
on 16 October 2008 at 4:06 am
Agreed. It definitely wasn’t the motivation. But letting such language slip out when fellow cabinet colleagues would never dare (Dermot Ahern, Mary Coughlan and Biffo spring to mind) speaks to the character of the man, and perhaps his unwillingness to toe the party line.
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Comment on Brian Lenihan: bruiser or bantamweight?
on 16 October 2008 at 3:36 am
Pete,
Inadvertent or not, the comments mark a departure from FF boilerplate..can’t imagine too many DUP councillors being miffed by being referred to as residents of ‘another State’!! At the very least CJH (even Biffo) would not want to be caught using such language, right or wrong..
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Comment on Darron Gibson starts…
on 16 October 2008 at 1:00 am
I am Mark. You’re not missing much, except for Duff’s run. Radio often has better commentary anyway…
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Comment on Darron Gibson starts…
on 16 October 2008 at 12:37 am
Nice to meet you too UMH. No wound-rubbing intended.
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Comment on ‘We can always hope for more emigration…’
on 15 October 2008 at 4:08 pm
Thanks Mick!
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